Titan Quest 2 is everything POE2 promised but failed to be

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So...people will now use Titan Quest 2 as their scapegoat instead of Last Epoch to show their disapointment with 0.3? Seeing in the future has never been this easy. I mean PoE2 has its flaws and all that...but we've all seen that scenario before (cough patch 0.2, how's Last Epoch going nowaday?).

TQ2 has barely 5 hours of content and people use that excuse of an early access as a cudgel to trash on POE2?

Is this some kind of ragebait, or just nogames coming in and regurgitating what their favorite streamer of the month said? I understand not liking the current content drought, but at least come up with real criticisms if you want to be taken seriously.

While the Early Access is quite short, Titan Quest 2 comes and reminds us how ARPGs used to be. Just like Titan Quest 1 it's all about the journey, exploration, world, vibe. None of that meta stuff (although some skills will always be better than others, everything is viable in the end and at decent investment levels), loot actually drops, and you're not incentivized to zoom through it at lightning speed.

Titan Quest 2 promises to be the type of ARPG we are sorely missing nowadays. Not all ARPGs need to be live service, MTX shoving, play forever. Hopefully the devs behind it keep the original vibe going, but their plan to take people's feedback into account worries me, because then all the speed and dopamine freaks might hijack it.

We'll just have to wait and see, but for now it has a promising future for a niche audience in the ARPG genre.

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Warrax#2850 wrote:

So...people will now use Titan Quest 2 as their scapegoat instead of Last Epoch to show their disapointment with 0.3? Seeing in the future has never been this easy. I mean PoE2 has its flaws and all that...but we've all seen that scenario before (cough patch 0.2, how's Last Epoch going nowaday?).

Lets be real here, LE with its 2010 graphics and Animation that is even worse than PoE1 is not seriously competing with poE2 in long run.

TQ however, actually competitive in visuals an animation, and & have modern level design with no load screen in open world. Comparitively POE2 looks like 2013 with small level and loading screen from level to level.

It also solve the dept without passive tree bloat, with same attributes and affixes spread thinly to actififally make it bigger, even though in my 10 years in this forum, NOONE ever ask for passive tree to be bigger. More interesting nodes, sure, never heard bigger.


But at end of the day, TQ2 will not be challenging poE in long run as it is not a live service. It does expose PoE2 shortfalls.

Titan quest 2 has its positive sides, but the combat is too simplistic and quickly gets repetitive. It completly lacks the combo gameplay of PoE 2.

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Elena#1466 wrote:

Titan quest 2 has its positive sides, but the combat is too simplistic and quickly gets repetitive. It completly lacks the combo gameplay of PoE 2.

Are we playing the same POE 2? Combos are a delusion used by GGG to promote POE 2. No one uses combos outside of the first half of ACT 1. POE 2's combat is as repetitive as TQ's or even more so.

POE2 is a dead Game for me. If the philosophie of the Games goes on like this, its not for me.

Had so much fun playing TQ2. Shame its only a glimpse for what to come but i cant wait till end of 2026.

Instead of suffering in POE2 i guess i should Try Grim Dawn, since its from the same developer.

So like spamming homing ice balls is "the promise" I guess.

Beyond that most everything seemed kind of lackluster build wise. I guess I'll have to experiment some more.

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lupasvasile#5385 wrote:

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Elena#1466 wrote:

Titan quest 2 has its positive sides, but the combat is too simplistic and quickly gets repetitive. It completly lacks the combo gameplay of PoE 2.

Are we playing the same POE 2? Combos are a delusion used by GGG to promote POE 2. No one uses combos outside of the first half of ACT 1. POE 2's combat is as repetitive as TQ's or even more so.

i don't use 'combo' tags but i use 3-4 skills on most of my chars in end game. well beside the witch, she just walks around rly- altho this suits her character very well lol